Our church is having vacation bible school (vbs) this week. My husband, oldest daughter and myself are all volunteers and our younger 3 are all taking part in the fun. Every night we get to the church by 5pm and don't get home until about 8:30pm. My youngest son, Tyler is part of a little league baseball team in our community and actually has 2 games scheduled for this week during the same time as vbs. Many people have asked us what message we feel it sends him that we are having him miss his games to be apart of vbs. Many have stated they feel we are teaching him to let his team mates down. This has been my answer...
It is our job as parents to teach our children priorities. Obviously God is number 1 in our lives and always should be. Then comes family, community, friends, etc! From our belief system we feel our church is where we celebrate God with our family in Christ. Our church family counts on the members of the congregation to not only be apart of vbs but to spread the great news of God's word through vbs! We are all essentially apart of the same team, God's team. When you look at the priorities list God and church family already both outrank sports. In addition we have a duty to our church family to not let down our team. Do I worry that one day my son will feel he did wrong by putting God, church or family above little league? Absolutely not! I am teaching him now that sometimes you have to make sacrafices. Sometimes you have to let others down, not because you don't care about your team mates, but because you are ultimately here to serve God and spread His word!
It is our job as parents to teach our children priorities. Obviously God is number 1 in our lives and always should be. Then comes family, community, friends, etc! From our belief system we feel our church is where we celebrate God with our family in Christ. Our church family counts on the members of the congregation to not only be apart of vbs but to spread the great news of God's word through vbs! We are all essentially apart of the same team, God's team. When you look at the priorities list God and church family already both outrank sports. In addition we have a duty to our church family to not let down our team. Do I worry that one day my son will feel he did wrong by putting God, church or family above little league? Absolutely not! I am teaching him now that sometimes you have to make sacrafices. Sometimes you have to let others down, not because you don't care about your team mates, but because you are ultimately here to serve God and spread His word!
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